From 35a4dcc147970fa9795f63d097c9534310814a7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Byron Ruth <b@devel.io>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 09:41:57 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Ensure client password defaults to empty string

In case the a None value is passed during initialization, this ensures the password defaults to an empty string. This prevents receiving a "'NoneType' object has no attribute 'encode'" when preparing the connection.
---
 pymysql/connections.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pymysql/connections.py b/pymysql/connections.py
index f7be54c..1aa7656 100644
--- a/pymysql/connections.py
+++ b/pymysql/connections.py
@@ -590,7 +590,7 @@ class Connection(object):
         self.host = host
         self.port = port
         self.user = user or DEFAULT_USER
-        self.password = passwd
+        self.password = passwd or ""
         self.db = database
         self.no_delay = no_delay
         self.unix_socket = unix_socket